A
twenty-year mystery solved: the crop hieroglyphs of Wiltshire
1990-1993 and Alton Barnes 1999 are purely astronomical, and
show various events in Earth's sky contemporary with their
appearances

Many people living
on Earth became startled or even terrified in the summer of
1990, when dozens of so-called "alien hieroglyphs" suddenly
began to fill the fields of southern England near Wiltshire.
Were extra-terrestrial aliens trying to talk to us? If so, why
would they choose such a bizarre means of communication?

Possibly out of fear, certain
government officials and/or newspaper owners quickly went into a
state of mind that psychologists call "denial" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial),
and concocted an elaborate story that two old English gentlemen
had made all of those crop pictures after leaving the pub late
at night, using boards and rope, in much the same way that Santa
Claus brings presents to young children on Christmas Eve:

"Denial is a defence mechanism in
which a person is faced with a fact that is too painful to
accept, and so rejects it instead, insisting that it is not
true, despite what may be overwhelming
evidence."

The purpose of this essay is to
remove such fear, by explaining what the earliest and "most
fearful" crop pictures were all about! There is essentially zero
chance that they could have be made by terrifying,
extra-terrestrial aliens. Instead, they seem to have been made
by other humans like ourselves who lived on Earth long
ago---the builders of great megalithic sites all across the
world including Stonehenge, Avebury, and perhaps various
pyramids in Egypt or central America.

Those ancient people were great
scholars and astronomers, far beyond what most current academic
historians believe. And somehow they came into the possession of
a very sophisticated technological device known as an
"engineered wormhole", that can send messages forward in time.
Indeed, they have been showing schematic pictures in crops of
that engineered wormhole almost continuously since the
phenomenon began.

So now those
ancient scholars are apparently talking to us across thousands
of years of time, using a space time wormhole or "portal".
Researchers such as Toftenes have clear photographs of their
wormhole opening in Earth's sky above a crop-circle field, then
closing again. Some of their remotely-controlled devices have
been well-documented on film. Those are the facts, not
simple-minded fables for young children. But what might their
messages be saying? Can we somehow read and understand them as
for ordinary English?

A universal astronomical language

Well, not as an ordinary human
language, it seems. The vast majority of their messages seem to
be purely astronomical in meaning, and show various events in
Earth's sky contemporary with their field appearances:

"As in the sky above, so on Earth
below."

That makes sense, because we do not know their written or spoken
language, and they may not be able to understand ours very well.
So they have chosen to send us other messages of a more
universal nature, just like those which Carl Sagan sent out on
Voyager, or beamed into space from Arecibo. Those same
people also built spectacular monuments around the world that
were similarly aligned with astronomical cycles: whether at
Knowth in Ireland, the Temple of Luxor in Egypt, or a Pyramid of
the Sun in central America.

In previous essays, I explained how some of their crop messages
show megalithic sundials or calendars, while others show lunar
phase diagrams, and still others show the phases of Venus, or
even an ancient Sun-Venus calendar that they use to keep time in
our modern era. A few pictures show modern sky appearances by
the planets Mercury, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn.

Yet for the past 20 years, all of those terrifying "alien
hieroglyphs" from Wiltshire 1990 to 1993 have remained a
mystery: what could they possibly mean? Are aliens talking to us
in some strange extra-terrestrial language? What fear will do!
When we do not clearly understand something, our most basic
human tendency seems to be fear and/or rejection.

Here I will show how 30 representative crop hieroglyphs from
Wiltshire 1990 to1993, including Alton Barnes in 1999, are also
astronomical in meaning, and again show various events in
Earth's sky contemporary with their appearances. Crop pictures
might be considered as one of the greatest language-translation
problems of the 21st century, if most modern scholars did not
choose to reject this amazing phenomenon out of hand, before
learning anything about it.

Ancient astronomical symbols for conjunction or opposition.

Most early crop pictures from
1990 to 1993 had the shape of "dumbbells". One can learn from Wikipedia
that such dumbbell shapes actually symbolize two ancient
astronomical concepts known as conjunction or opposition:

The detailed meanings of
astronomical conjunction or opposition are explained further
below:

Any simple conjunction involves
a close approach in the sky of two heavenly bodies, say Venus
and Jupiter. But sometimes we see a conjunction of three or four
planets at once. Similarly, any simple opposition involves a
close approach through space of two planets, say Earth and Mars.
But sometimes we see an opposition of three or four planets at
once.

Three fundamental symbols for
Sun, Moon or Earth

Having explained that crop "dumbbells" symbolize
the well-known astronomical phenomena of conjunction or
opposition, our next task will be to understand which two
heavenly bodies might be connected at any given point of
time? For that purpose, we will need to learn which specific
symbols those crop artists have assigned to various planets,
the Moon or the Sun, so as to create specific messages? By
comparing many of their pictures with known events in
Earth's sky on a similar calendar date, one can deduce
fairly easily that their three most fundamental symbols are
as follows:

Their symbol for "Sun" is just a big inscribed ring (as in
modern astrology), while their symbol for "Moon" is a
dumbbell that has been attached on one end to a small white
ball (symbolizing a full Moon). Two thin lines have been
drawn next to that Moon symbol on either side, in order to
emphasize "rapid motion through our sky". Lastly, their
symbol for "Earth" is a Celtic-Cross shape that resembles
our planet with a single moon in orbit about it. All three
of those symbols appeared in close succession on May 18, May
23 or May 28, 1990.

Moon symbols were next shown
overlaid with Sun symbols to portray solar eclipses

Now having three astronomical symbols in hand for Sun, Moon
or Earth, how can we use those symbols to "write sentences"
so to speak, and say something useful about what might be
happening in Earth's sky on any given calendar date? The
most basic kind of astronomical event that we can now
describe would be a solar eclipse, where those Moon and
Sun symbols should be laid on top of one another as seen
from Earth:

And that is exactly what the crop artists showed us next.
They used a series of simple Moon-Sun crop pictures as shown
above (and summarized below) to tell us when solar eclipses
would be seen in Earth's sky during the summers of 1990,
1991 and 1992.

Table 1. Total solar eclipses 1990-1992

Crop date

Field location

Sky event

Astronomical date

June 28, 1990

Longwood Estate

Moon-Sun-Jupiter

July 21, 1990

July 7, 1990

Chilcomb Down

Moon-Sun-Jupiter

July 21, 1990

July 13, 1990

Crawley Down

Moon-Sun-Jupiter

July 21, 1990

June 15, 1991

Westwoods

Moon-Sun

July 11, 1991

July 7, 1991

Alton Barnes

Moon-Sun

July 11, 1991

July 11, 1991

Ogbourne

Moon-Sun

July 11, 1991

August 5, 1992

Ogbourne

Moon-Sun-Venus

June 30, 1992

Other
crop symbols for Venus, Mars or Jupiter

So far, so good. But now we need to add other symbols for
the brightest planets, in order to expand our astronomical
vocabulary. And indeed, such symbols soon appeared for the
three brightest planets Venus, Mars or Jupiter:

By the mid-summer of 1990, a more complex kind of message
was being shown, telling us about a double conjunction in
Earth's sky between Jupiter and Venus, plus Jupiter and the
Moon, on August 12-17, 1990:

Likewise by the summer of 1991, another complex message had
appeared, telling us about a double conjunction between Mars
and Jupiter, plus Venus and the Moon, on June 15, 1991 (see
above).

With those two clear
examples in hand, I found it quite easy to deduce the
detailed astronomical meanings of 20 more crop pictures of a
similar kind, that also describe contemporary events in
Earth's sky from 1990 to 1993. Those correlations are listed
in Table 2 below, and may be confirmed with the help of an
astronomical almanac from Jodrell Bank (www.jb.man.ac.uk/almanac).
Most of those old crop pictures may be accessed through the
archives of this website, after paying a small membership
fee.

Table 2. Planetary conjunctions and/or oppositions 1990-1993

Crop date

Field location

Sky event

Astronomical date

July 12, 1990

Alton Barnes

Jupiter-Venus

Jupiter-Moon

August 12, 1990

August 17, 1990

July 12, 1990

Stanton St. Bernard

Jupiter-Venus

Moon-Sun

(solar eclipse)

August 12, 1990

July 21, 1990

July 26, 1990

Allington Down

Jupiter-Moon

Venus-Moon

August 17, 1990

August 18, 1990

August 1, 1990

Barn Field

Jupiter-Sun (conjunction)

July 15, 1990

August 3, 1990

Hazely Farm

Jupiter-Sun (conjunction)

Saturn-Sun (opposition)

July 15, 1990

July 14, 1990

August 7, 1990

Westbury

Saturn-Moon

August 31, 1990

June 25, 1991

Litchfield

Saturn-Sun

(opposition)

July 27, 1991

June 30, 1991

Newton St. Loe

Venus-Moon

Jupiter-Mars

June 15, 1991

June 15, 1991

July 12, 1991

Stonehenge

Saturn-Sun

(opposition)

July 27, 1991

July 18, 1991

Alton Barnes

Jupiter-Moon

July 12, 1991

August 9, 1991

July 23, 1991

East Kennett

Jupiter-Moon

July 12, 1991

August 9, 1991

July 30, 1991

Lockeridge (whale)

Venus-Regulus

July 11, 1991

August 1, 1991

Cheesefoot Head

Saturn-Sun

(opposition)

July 27, 1991

August 4, 1991

Firs Farm (whale)

Mars-Regulus

July 14, 1991

August 18, 1991

Froxfield (whale)

Jupiter-Regulus

Sept. 10, 1991

July 24, 1992

East Meon

Jupiter-Sun-Mercury

(conjunction)

Sept. 16, 1992

August 5, 1992

Upton Lovell

Jupiter-Venus

August 23, 1992

August 1, 1993

Windmill Hill

Moon-Sun-Mercury

July 19, 1993

Notes to Table I. When any planetary conjunction or
opposition involves the Sun, typically a large

round circle is drawn over the connecting line. When any
planetary conjunction involves the Moon,

typically two small lines are drawn on either side of the
connecting line.

Three
successive conjunctions of Venus, Mars or Jupiter with a bright
star Regulus in 1991

Some crop pictures from 1990 to 1993 did not follow the
same symbolic logic. Yet it was easy to figure out that a
"whale" picture that appeared three times in the late summer
of 1991 was meant to inform us about three successive
conjunctions of the planets Venus, Mars or Jupiter with a
bright star Regulus, by means of a characteristic asterism
in Leo that resembles a whale:

The northern constellation
Cygnus and Messier object M56

A few other crop pictures from those years showed only
stars, and no planets. One such example involving the
northern constellation Cygnus is shown below:

More crop symbols for Mercury
and Saturn

Other astronomical symbols soon appeared for the less-bright
planets Mercury or Saturn. One of their two chosen symbols
for Mercury shows a "round ball with two wings", thereby
indicating its great speed (whereas their symbol for
Venus has only "one wing" or half the speed: see above).
Both of their symbols for Saturn show "two ears", to
comically describe what the two rings of Saturn look like in
a low-resolution telescope:

Alton Barnes of June 1999
portrayed a grand conjunction on May 5, 2000

Now with so many different symbols in hand, we can explain
the detailed meanings of six glyphs drawn across 1 km of
field at Alton Barnes on June 12, 1999. Three glyphs from
its left-hand end describe (i) a Moon-Saturn conjunction on
May 4, 2000, (ii) a Jupiter-Sun-Mercury conjunction on May
8, 2000, or (iii) a view of Earth's sky as seen on both
sides of the ecliptic (or in other words, on both sides of
the Sun):

Three other glyphs from the right-hand end of Alton Bames
describe (iv) a five-body planetary conjunction on May 5,
2000 involving the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus
(actually there were seven bodies, but Venus and Mars
remained distant), (v) a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction with the
Sun on May 8, 2000, and (vi) a Jupiter-Moon conjunction with
Mercury on May 4, 2000:

All of those six glyphs referred to a grand conjunction of
seven bodies that occurred one year later on May 5, 2000:

If they wanted to inform us that dumbbell-type hieroglyphs
mean conjunction or opposition, what could have been a
better way than to show us a spectacular, 1 km long crop
picture to mark the grand conjunction of May 5, 2000? To me,
their intended meaning was absolutely lucid and clear.

An overlay of two symbols for
Earth and Milky Way in 2005: what could it mean?

After 1999, very few astronomical hieroglyphs appeared in
new crop pictures. Their general style had moved onto other
kinds of symbolism such as sundials, sacred geometry or
Mayan Sunstones. But in late 2005, one more example
of the hieroglyph for "Earth" did appear at Marden, with an
ancient Mayan symbol for "Milky Way" or "white road of
stars" superimposed upon it:

What could that possibly mean? One week later, another
picture showing 18 triangles (to symbolize 18 months in a
Mayan Long Count year) appeared nearby, and pointed to the
earlier one. When studied together, those two pictures seem
to say: "our ancient Long Count calendar will
end when Earth's view of the Milky Way is eclipsed by your
Sun, on the winter solstice of 2012".

Now on the same day that Marden appeared, another famous
crop picture appeared at Wayland's Smithy. It came in the
form of a Mayan Sunstone, and showed two coded dates from
their ancient Sun-Venus calendar that counts time in cycles
of 52 years. Our current cycle began with a Sun-Venus
conjunction on April 10, 1961, and will end with another
Sun-Venus conjunction on March 28, 2013.

Their first date "13-10-7" translated from base-16
into August 9, 2005, which was the day when that crop
picture (and also Marden) had appeared. Their second date
"14-5-11" translated into November 21, 2007 plus or minus
two days. Evidently some major astronomical event will
happen on November 21, 2007 (just one month from now). but I
cannot find anything significant using an astronomical
almanac (www.jb.man.ac.uk/almanac).
Well, there are still some important problems left to be
solved!